42.2541 - Medio-European montane spruce forests

Classification des habitats du Paléarctique (2001)

Description

Spruce and fir-spruce forests of the montane or submontane levels of the outer Alps, of the mid-Pannonic hills, of the outer Western and Northern Carpathians, of the Jura system and of the Hercynian arc, including spruce facies of fir-beech forests of the range of the Fagion medio-europaeum. Spruce-dominated facies of Alpine beech-fir forests of the range of the Fagion illyricum are listed separately in unit 42.2542.

Correspondances phytosociologiques

Fagion sylvaticae (Fagion medio-europaeum) p.: Galio-Abietenion, Galio-Fagenion, Dentario-Fagenion, Cephalanthero-Fagenion, Luzulo-Fagenion, p.; Piceion abietis p.: Vaccinio-Abietenion p.

Bibliographie

Devillers P., Devillers-Terschuren J. & Vander Linden C., 2001. PHYSIS Palaearctic Habitat Classification Database. Updated to 10 December 2001. Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles, Bruxelles. (Source)

Mayer, 1974; Horvat & al., 1974: 564-565; Ozenda, 1981; Richard and Pautou, 1982; Oberdorfer, 1992b; Wallnöfer & al., 1993; Wallnöfer, 1993b.